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Questions? Answers! Questions? Answers! Hot off the presses from ursam@jor I have a list of questions she�s asked me and I am pleased as punch to be answering them here. She was able to rattle off a list of some things we have in common. God I love the internet! For anyone who�s wondering, Friday night was a jam! I was in the goove, smokin�, had �em eating from the palm of my hand. The key is practice, practice, practice. Now, can I just be your average, everyday recovering drunk in the audience for a while? 1. You say that the older you get, the more narrow-minded you become. How so? Narrow minded in that my views are less liberal than the views of my youth. Narrow minded in that behaviors that would have been acceptable to me in my teens and twenties, like my drug and alcohol use/abuse, are completely taboo today. I sincerely hope my child does not have to go through these experiences to see that they are the wrong path. I�m sure my parents were appalled at the way I dressed/wore my hair and at the music I listened to. I am appalled by tattoos and body piercings and the clothes and hair adopted by subsequent generations. While I do like most of the music, I doubt I will ever understand �bed head.� Narrow minded in that my younger thinking was that the government should do everything it can to help the poor and disenfranchised of this country to make better lives for themselves. Now I see so many of those people relying upon those hand-outs without doing anything for themselves to better their own lives, that it makes me want to pull the plug on a lot of social systems. When I worked, I worked very hard for my money and I resent seeing it go to people with no ambition to assist in making their own lives better, they just rely on someone else to do it for them. I still work very hard; the difference is that I no longer do it for a �paycheck.� Narrow minded in that I used to think we should do everything we can to protect and preserve the environment, but now I think that it is done too often at the expense of people. I think there is a balance in there somewhere between clubbing baby seals and being over-run with baby seals; clear-cutting a forest and preserving it; drilling for oil and having a pristine wilderness. 2. If you hadn't met the Ms. and been whisked away to the land of Oz, where do you think you would be now and what would you be doing? I know for a fact that I would be in total panic mode. The company that I worked for before I retired just got bought out by a huge corporation. My department was outsourced to another state so I would be scrambling to find work. Moving north to live with my disabled father would be a very real possibility. Now that would have some plusses since he lives 30 minutes from a major ski resort. 3. If you were the author of that teeny little "Life's Little Instruction Book," what would be your first and foremost Instruction For Life? Embrace change. Make it your friend. People will come and go. You will live many different places and likely have many different jobs. You will see many new marvels in your life. If you adapt yourself to expect change, then the changes you experience will not be so traumatic. 4. How can you hate us extreme liberals? We mean so well...
I would oppose extreme anything as it leaves no room for natural deviation, healthy dialogue, and meaningful compromise. I was a registered Republican up until this past election, but I wasn�t the kind that mindlessly voted party line. I liked the core ideals of the Republican Party: less government, less spending, self reliance, prudence in global involvement. I would vote for the people and issues that were in synch with my own personal belief system regardless of which party was backing them. Now I see the Party completely co-opted by the religious right, to the point where it�s difficult to support candidates that predominantly share my values, but for the fact that they are pandering to a very small, very vocal minority. Yet the Democratic Party has done everything they can to be so completely opposite of the Republicans that they have become guilty of the very thing they condemn the Right for, and that is the inability to dialogue and compromise. Each side accuses the other of shoving their way of life on an unwilling public and they�re blind to the fact that they are the same coin, just different sides. I re-registered as a Democrat after Nov. 2004 in the hope that if we get more people registered in Kansas as something other than Republican, the other parties will take more of an interest in bringing their candidates to Kansas to see if they can�t change some minds over to their way of thinking. 5. What are you looking forward to most? My child being old enough and responsible enough to be on his own. In spite of my experiences with drugs and alcohol, I�ve spent a good deal of my life caring for other people and I look forward to some �me� time. I�d like the freedom to travel at a moments notice; to not have to get up at the crack of dawn unless I chose to; and to have sex with my woman and not be worrying that The Kid will hear us. Listening to: tony danza show Smelling: coffee brewing Reading: jonathan kellerman the web Mood: spring-like
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